[George Smiley]

Googling "Charles Taylor" + "candidate" - "dictator" lowers the count to around 231,000 hits.

Googling "Charles Taylor" + "candidate" - "Liberia" lowers the count to around 132,000 hits.

Whether

1) that is excluding references to the former Liberian head of state who is being extradited back to Liberia from Nigeria to be tried for war crimes, or

2) there are a large number of extremely unflattering articles about the 11th District incumbent, I cannot say from this limited amount of research.

:-)

[Congressman Billybob]

Thanks. The short ad I placed in the North Carolina Conservative did not have space to eliminate all the references to the Charles Taylor who was the dictator of Liberia. Those Net-savvy people who take up the comparison on their own will find what you just found.

Too bad the election isn't being conducted on the Net. But then again, the prospects for fraud in that venue would be overwhelming.

John / Billybob